smwl

Etymology
The origin is.

Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬. Mayrhofer considers the latter to be borrowed directly from Iranian, perhaps Parthian.

According to some, we are dealing with a word of Turkic origin. But this is rejected by Doerfer, because the Turkic words are themselves borrowed from Persian, being present exclusively in Persian-influenced Turkic languages.

According to Wikander (apud Mayrhofer) the word is ultimately of "Central Asian" origin.

🇨🇬, the source of the European words for “sable”, including English, may somehow be related.

Noun

 * 1) sable marten

Descendants
Taking Middle Persian as representative for all Middle Iranian: